Reported Roommates of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Picked Up By Police

Law enforcement officials have scooped up three individuals in conjunction with the ongoing investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing. The Boston Globereports that of the three men, two are Kazakh students named Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov who enrolled at the same University of Massachusetts campus where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been a student; the name of the third man is as-yet unknown.

A source told the Globe that the group “allegedly helped [Tsarnaev] after the bombing.” USA Todayadds that the three were roommates of the suspected bomber “have been arrested on suspicion of allegedly removing some of his personal effects from their dorm room at his direction following the April 15 attack.” The paper also notes that they are not “suspected of having advance knowledge of the plot or participating in the planning of the bombing.”